@vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social
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Just got back from speaking at a demonstration against Trump's compact and other attacks on academic freedom & civil rights at universities, organized by Vanderbilt Indivisible, grad & undergrad students, and Vanderbilt's chapter of AAUP @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social
Great energy from everyone there.
Great energy from everyone there.
November 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Just got back from speaking at a demonstration against Trump's compact and other attacks on academic freedom & civil rights at universities, organized by Vanderbilt Indivisible, grad & undergrad students, and Vanderbilt's chapter of AAUP @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social
Great energy from everyone there.
Great energy from everyone there.
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Experts told The Chronicle that the universities that have declined the compact have taken up a strategy of saying their researchers are good enough on their own to secure federal dollars -- and don't need preferential treatment.
In Declining Compact, Colleges Try to Leverage ‘Merit’ to Turn the Tables on Trump
“Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone,” MIT’s president said, using language that has since...
www.chronicle.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Experts told The Chronicle that the universities that have declined the compact have taken up a strategy of saying their researchers are good enough on their own to secure federal dollars -- and don't need preferential treatment.
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The snake is growing.
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Vanderbilt, Texas, AZ…now’s the time.
The world is watching.
The resistance is here.
#NoLoyaltyOaths
#NoKings
#DefendHigherEd
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Vanderbilt, Texas, AZ…now’s the time.
The world is watching.
The resistance is here.
#NoLoyaltyOaths
#NoKings
#DefendHigherEd
October 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The snake is growing.
✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼
Vanderbilt, Texas, AZ…now’s the time.
The world is watching.
The resistance is here.
#NoLoyaltyOaths
#NoKings
#DefendHigherEd
✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼
Vanderbilt, Texas, AZ…now’s the time.
The world is watching.
The resistance is here.
#NoLoyaltyOaths
#NoKings
#DefendHigherEd
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BREAKING: The University of Virginia has become the fifth school to reject the "Compact for Academic Excellence" that was initially sent to nine universities.
UVA rejects Trump administration’s ‘Compact for Academic Excellence'
"We will continue to work to strengthen free expression and free inquiry in an increasingly polarized world."
www.vpm.org
October 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
BREAKING: The University of Virginia has become the fifth school to reject the "Compact for Academic Excellence" that was initially sent to nine universities.
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Vanderbilt's student newspaper @vandyhustler.bsky.social has a good article about the Faculty Senate resolution condemning the White House's proposed compact on higher education.
vanderbilthustler.com/2025/10/11/f...
vanderbilthustler.com/2025/10/11/f...
bsky.app
October 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Vanderbilt's student newspaper @vandyhustler.bsky.social has a good article about the Faculty Senate resolution condemning the White House's proposed compact on higher education.
vanderbilthustler.com/2025/10/11/f...
vanderbilthustler.com/2025/10/11/f...
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Opinion | The deluded attempt to enforce identitarian political assumptions cannot achieve pluralism.
Opinion | When Viewpoint Diversity Means Conformity
Trump’s compact isn’t just coercive. It’s incoherent.
chroni.cl
October 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Opinion | The deluded attempt to enforce identitarian political assumptions cannot achieve pluralism.
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To understand the Trump administration’s vision for American education, @megomatz.bsky.social and I studied dozens of hours of political appointees’ speeches and podcasts and essays. What emerged is a desire to dismantle the nation’s system of public schools.
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
www.propublica.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
To understand the Trump administration’s vision for American education, @megomatz.bsky.social and I studied dozens of hours of political appointees’ speeches and podcasts and essays. What emerged is a desire to dismantle the nation’s system of public schools.
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The Vanderbilt chapter of @aaup.org has issued a statement condemning President Trump's proposed "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" as an illegal assault on civil rights, academic freedom, shared governance, and institutional autonomy.
vanderbiltaaup.org/2025/10/06/s...
vanderbiltaaup.org/2025/10/06/s...
Statement by the Vanderbilt AAUP Executive Committee on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
October 6, 2025 On October 2nd, Vanderbilt was among nine universities “invited” to sign a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” with the federal government. The Compact, however, i…
vanderbiltaaup.org
October 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The Vanderbilt chapter of @aaup.org has issued a statement condemning President Trump's proposed "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" as an illegal assault on civil rights, academic freedom, shared governance, and institutional autonomy.
vanderbiltaaup.org/2025/10/06/s...
vanderbiltaaup.org/2025/10/06/s...
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“If we aren't free to pursue research and teaching based on wherever the knowledge leads us, we are not truly working in the service of the public.”
— Rana Jaleel, associate professor at UC Davis & Chair of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure
— Rana Jaleel, associate professor at UC Davis & Chair of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure
How Academic Freedom in Universities Generates the Greatest Value for Society
Academic freedom is at the foundation of one of the most powerful and fundamental ideas about universities. Learn about how academic freedom has contributed to broad benefits in society and UC Davis f...
lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu
October 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“If we aren't free to pursue research and teaching based on wherever the knowledge leads us, we are not truly working in the service of the public.”
— Rana Jaleel, associate professor at UC Davis & Chair of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure
— Rana Jaleel, associate professor at UC Davis & Chair of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure
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NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!
Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.
Please click below, sign, & share.
#DefendHigherEd
Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.
Please click below, sign, & share.
#DefendHigherEd
University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts
The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...
actionnetwork.org
October 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!
Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.
Please click below, sign, & share.
#DefendHigherEd
Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.
Please click below, sign, & share.
#DefendHigherEd